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Discipline: Anthropology

Motivating Employees and Volunteers of International Organisations: Do Values Matter?

To what extent does the fit between personal values and the organizational values of an IO foster the working motivation of its employees and volunteers?
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Mainstream Migration, Scientific Diasporas and Development – Impact of Return Skilled Migration on Development in India

What are the patterns and impacts on the development of return skilled migration and how can the potential of scientific diasporas best be exploited for development?
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Local Communities’ Access to Justice and the State of Kenya – Impunity, Legal Pluralism and the Resolution of Conflicts

What does impunity mean to local communities in areas of protracted conflict and how do local and regional forms of informal justice contribute to re-establishing law and order?
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Enhancing the Capabilities of the Most Vulnerable: Pilot Project on Inequalities in Human Development in Bamako and Accra

How can a capability based approach help explain the widening gap in development and what insights can be derived to combat poverty efficiently?
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Electronics Manufacturing Industry: the Implications of ‘Soft Governance’ for Labor Standards

How do transnational corporate social responsibility standards influence and shape labor conditions in the electronics manufacturing industry in China and Taiwan?
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Development Myths in Practice: the ”Femininisation” of Anti-poverty Policies and International Organisations. The Cases of Brazil, the Philippines and Mozambique

What are the effects of gender-based international development programs in Brazil, the Philippines and Mozambique?
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Socio-psychological Impacts of the Agricultural Policies: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Study (Switzerland, France and Québec)

What are the impacts of agricultural policies on the social and psychological situation of farmers?
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Psychology, Mental Health and Law: Integrating Psychological Knowledge in the Cambodia Trials

How can psychological knowledge help legal professionals in their work with victims in the context of the Cambodian trials?
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Transnational Senegalese Migration, Integration and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Migrant Organisations in Four European Receiving Context

What are the roles played by migrant organisations in the context of transnational Senegalese migration, integration and development?
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Refugee Flows and Transnational Ethnic Linkages

What are the effects of cross-border refugee flows and the possible spread of conflicts in host countries taking into account ethnical linkages?
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